Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-02
City.

Two negro laboring men of New Orleans
won Slj, 1000 eaCh-OnC-tenth each of the
capital prize-and there was joy on their
faces when they received their money. DIR.
Dauphin, the President of the Company,
then exhibited the list OF ticket-holders,
showing to what sections of the country
the tickets were sent, and to whom, thus
affording an absolute protection against
fraud or duplication of tickets.
Everybody in New Orleans buys lottery
tickets. They do that as regularly as they
pay their board bills. Not a ticket wa to
BE- had in the city yesterday at 10 o'clock.
The institution has u strong hold upon the
peoplc-nothing peculiar among the Latin
race. They believe in the responsibility
and honesty of the company, and are
rcady to take their chances on winning
back their money. And then the posi-
bility OF one of the capital
prizes! During eleven months of
1856 the Company has paid in prizes more
than $1,000, 900. The capital of the Com
pany is II. 600, 900, and it has a surplus of
$500, 600. Everybody tries to get some of
the stock, and it is held largely by women.
The payment under its charter of $40, 600
a year maintains one of the finest and best
equipped hospitals in the world in which
| the unfortunate of the whole Mississippi
valley are cared for. But the liberal hand
Of the Company reaches almost every de-
serving charity in the community, and
hence its popularity Ia a large degree.
There is nothing oStcniatiOuS in its good
deeds, but they are for that reason apprc-
Ciated the more.
CASTING LOTS.
While from time immemOrial the Latin
race has INDUCED in lotteries, the diSpOsi-
ton to grow rich on the turn of a card is
not hy any means confined TO that race.
! Sooner or later nearly every one buys n
lottery ticket, and Joy comes with win
ming. In this, as in many things in life,
men are proud only when success crowns
their ventures. The origin of lotteries is
by no means mysterious or lOwly. Lot"
implies something hidden, and that which
can he known or awarded only by for
tune or the act of God. Lot and Abra-
ham were seeking their fortunes, and when
they ''fcll out" they went upon Il noun
tain from whence they could see all the
East and the West, and Lot chose the
beautiful valley which stretched away to-
ward Jordan and Sodom and GOmOrrah.
lie was taking his chances. lie had TO
draw q prize, or a blank in the lottery of
life. The desolating fire wrapped his cs-
tatas and cities in flames, and even his
wife was turned into a pillar Of salt. That
was a hard Got" 1t wa by casting lots
that the eleven disciples elected the sue
ceSSor of Judas, and the famous
missionaries among the Indians,
the MOravians, in the early
DAYS married by ''lot'-and so marriage
| still remains a lottery. Augustus intro
duced lotteries to the people Of Italy.
About the time of Luther the Italian mcr-
chants disposed of their wares and goods
and ships by lot. In 1880 the republic of
Genoa resorted to lotteries to maintain the
Government, and there the first lottery with
regularly numbered tickets was drawn.
Francis |. adopted the Genoese plan, and
each purchaser of ticket paida small SUN
as tribute to the Government. Twenty-one
years later lotteries for money exclusively
were founded, and they were conducted
under the direct control of the King. In
England the first public lottery was